Antioxidant material from the Osage orange (Bois d'Arc) fruit

X T H O U G H Osage orange wood and the dye conrained therein have found considerable commercial application, no industrial or domestic uses have been found for the Osage orange fruit . In an earlier pape r (1) the authors reported a par t ia l analysis of the f ru i t and emphasized its potentiali t ies as a source of industr ial raw materials such as oil, sugars, resins, pigments, etc.. This repor t is concerned with the discovery of a highly potent a n t i o x i d a n t among the constituents of the Osage orange fruit .